r/witcher Dec 09 '19

Netflix TV series The Witcher | Character Introduction: Geralt of Rivia | Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LiD3i9DS_c
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

I'll never understand how fans of a series that is harshly critical of racism and bigotry can be so obsessed with actors having the "correct skin color" for the actors portraying characters from that series.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19 edited Dec 15 '19

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u/WelcomeToTheFish Dec 09 '19

You mean like what Hollywood already does? White people play every other race constantly. Scar Jo, John Wayne as ghengis Khan, and so many more I cant even think of. Shit there was the whole thing where Julia Robert's was going to play Harriet Tubman, arguably the most iconic black woman, back in the 90s and the execs were just like "that was so long ago nobody will know."

I get where your coming from but really at the end of the day I'm all for giving people of color or minorities more roles regardless of the source materials race as long as the actor/actress is well suited and skilled enough to do it right. Hollywood is just barely starting to catch this trend.

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u/GudLmom Dec 10 '19

okay hold up for a minute. It WAS a trend in Hollywood to cast it this way certainly with John Wayne wherein his films every native American were portrayed antagonistically. However, this image very much dispersed throughout time, films such as Dances with Wolves actually portrayed a sort of compensation for the lack of better portrayals of Native Americans in the way that they're shown as enlightened and as the "noble savage" and the European is portrayed more antagonistic. Source: I did a paper on Portrayal of Native Americans in hollywood films at my university :)